I do a lot of posts focusing on speculative fiction book covers. Some look at the good, but a lot of the time I’m poking fun at the weird, the strange, the bizarre from my favorite reading genre. Too often I seem to be picking on the covers from decades past when the artistic style was much different from today. And that isn’t very fair of me, because a lot of those old covers were damn good, great even.
Today, I will seek to remedy my idiotic oversight and make amends for my former slight by taking a look at some of the most memorable speculative fiction covers of the past: the DAW SF Book line, where beautiful covers were almost always on display.
Let us start with a series of covers for a favorite author of mine: Michael Moorcock!
Now, let us take a look at some of the science fiction covers DAW published back in the day!
Cool stuff. Damn cool. The old school look and feel of these classic covers really a delight to my eyes. Let’s end this with a look at few covers with a more fantasy feel to them.
Have any to add?
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Fun post – I think I have still have several of these packed away in the basement. Cheers
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I love old school covers! Thanks for highlighting! Some of them are super trippy. My favourite is the one with the tiny dragon on a leash awww! Just walking my dragon, mate 😉
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Loads of creativity back in the day. Even the bizarre ones are always interesting. 🙂
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Love these fantasy covers, explains Conan. My favorite old school science fiction were Aldiss’ “The Dark Light Years” (First Four Square, 1964), nothing beats a giant lizard. Also for the trippiness Wyndham’s “Re-Birth” the 1955 Balantine Books cover – for a kid freaked me right out. Oh man the smell of these books too, reminiscent of Saturday afternoon at the Used book store…
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Reblogged this on Archer's Aim and commented:
I always love to see old covers and here are a few from over on Bookwraiths.
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